Post by hi224 on Mar 1, 2021 5:53:11 GMT
Roopkund Lake is located 5,029 metres (16,500ft) above sea level at the bottom of a steep slope on Trisul, one of India's highest mountains, in the state of Uttarakhand.
The remains are strewn around and beneath the ice at the "lake of skeletons", discovered by a patrolling British forest ranger in 1942.
For more than half-a-century anthropologists and scientists have studied the remains and puzzled over a host of questions.
Scientists genetically analysed and carbon-dated the remains of 38 bodies, including 15 women, found at the lake - some of them date back to around 1,200 years.They found that the dead were both genetically diverse and their deaths were separated in time by as much as 1,000 years.
Who were these people? When did they die? How did they die? Where did they come from?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56116533
The remains are strewn around and beneath the ice at the "lake of skeletons", discovered by a patrolling British forest ranger in 1942.
For more than half-a-century anthropologists and scientists have studied the remains and puzzled over a host of questions.
Scientists genetically analysed and carbon-dated the remains of 38 bodies, including 15 women, found at the lake - some of them date back to around 1,200 years.They found that the dead were both genetically diverse and their deaths were separated in time by as much as 1,000 years.
Who were these people? When did they die? How did they die? Where did they come from?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56116533